The Treatment Of Cardiac Transplant Surgery

The medical practice of organ transplantation has grown by leaps and bounds over the last 50 years. Each year the medical profession takes more risk with decisions regarding transplants, how to allocate for organs, and most recently conducting transplants on children with adult organs. “An organ transplantation is a surgical operation where a failing or damaged organ in the human body is removed and replaced with a new one” (Caplan, 2009). Not all organs can be transplanted. The term “organ transplant” typically refers to transplants of solid organs: heart, kidneys, liver, pancreas, and intestines. There are two ways of receiving an organ transplant: from a living human or an organ from a

Although these interventions may improve immediate survival in the short term, only coronary artery revascularization and cardiac transplantation have been shown to improve long-term survival.” (DeMarco & Chatterjee, 1993)

Throughout time Organ transplanting has been an important medical procedure that has been present, not only in the United States, but around the globe. It is the process of surgically removing an organ from on patient and then transplanting it into the other. This practice is usually used when a recipient’s own organ fails to function properly or has

People, who receive artificial hearts, fall into two categories being “bridge” or “destination.” The “bridge” group, are those people who would most likely die waiting for a suitable donor heart. The “destination” group are those patients who’s body would not suit a donor heart transplant but would benefit in additional years lived from an artificial heart.

Congenital heart defects (CHD) are birth defects that are considered the common in the United States. These defects affect a newborn child’s blood flow to and from the heart and sometimes can leave the heart lacking parts that make it necessary for the heart to do its job. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2014), 1 in 4 children born with a CHD is considered critical and will result in that child needing heart surgery or other similar procedures within the first years of its life. These CHD’s can range from Atrial Septal Defects, Coarctation of the aorta, Ebstien anomaly, Pulmanary artesia, Tetralogy of Fallot, Trancus Arteriosus, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, as well as many others (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). The specific CHD that will be covered in detail will be the Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). HLHS accounts for nearly 960 congenital birth defects per year and

"Congestive Heart Failure is the Inability of the heart to maintain the demands of pumping blood with normal efficiency to other organs, such as the brain, liver, and kidneys" (Congestive heart failure, 2008). Without the heart carrying out its functions, all the organs in the body would be deprived of sufficient blood to do its work, the kidney will no longer filter its blood leading to fluid accumulation in areas such as the lungs, liver, legs, and surrounding eye, when this happens, it is called congestive heart failure. "Cardiomyopathy is a situation where there are changes in the heart muscle which prevent part or all the heart from contracting normally" ("Cardiomyopathy,” 2013). This situation could be acquired or inherited problem of the heart muscles resulting in thickness or expansion of the heart making it difficult to pump required blood that the body needed. In this paper, the writer would have the opportunity to discuss the best approach to care that Mr. P battling cardiomyopathy and CHF deserve, the treatment and education he needed that would help him, the method of education, and the teaching care plan.

Introduction Before My Heart Stops is the memoir of Paul Cardall, who was born with a congenital heart defect. This book is about his life, faith, disappointments, sorrow, heart transplant, and the new chance of life. Cardall was born with a double inlet left ventricle (DILV) defect and within 24 hours, he had his first heart surgery. His parents were given the unsettling news that their infant son had a short life expectancy. Cardall, at the age of 36 was the longest living person with a congenital heart defect/disease in the state of Utah to survive and become a recipient of a new heart (Cardall, 2010).

However, in the further with further increasing numbers of SV survivors, we will probably encounter CADs in SV patients. Nevertheless and more importantly, in SV patients who have received or will receive heart transplant an previously had IMAs embolization, IMAs CABG would not be available for them when they develop transplant coronary arterial (allograft) vasculopathy. Transplant coronary arterial (allograft) vasculopathy is of the foremost causes of morbidity and mortality after heart transplantation. Surgical (CABG) and transcatheter revascularization has been reported as a successful and viable treatment options in short as well as midterm follow up [26,27]. Therefore, losing IMAs will deprive those patients from the best graft to treat their

Project: “Pulmonary Function Testing and Prognosis in Heart Failure Patients Listed for Heart Transplantation”. The study examined the prediction power of spirometric variables on the prognosis among HF patients listed for heart transplantation. During this experience, I was actively involved in data collection, data entry and result analysis. I also had hands-on experience in the conduct and administration of the clinical research study protocol. The data were published in Cardiac Failure Journal August 2014 and had presented at the 18th Annual Scientific meeting of the Heart Failure Society of America, November 2014.

The need for a heart transplant can be outlined to one of many heart difficulties, each of which causes harm to the heart muscle. The two most frequent heart difficulties are coronary artery disease and idiopathic cardiomyopathy. Coronary artery disease develops when your coronary arteries ( a the key blood vessels) become damaged or diseased. Cholesterol (plaque) containing deposits in your arteries and inflammation are usually to blame for coronary artery disease. Dilated idiopathic cardiomyopathy occurs when heart muscle stretches and thins without any obvious cause. Thinning and widening of the heart muscle means that the chambers of the heart become bigger. Over time, the

Thesis Statement: Knowing that after any cardiac transplant surgery the new heart is completely denervated from all sympathetic and parasympathetic activity, limiting ones standard of living due to a null HR response to exercise, lack of angina, and a decrease in normal cardiac function, more knowledge is needed to obtain a better understanding of general information, Physiology, and the best means of treatment in a denervated heart.

My topic will be based off the Cardiovascular System. I am going to be writing about the first person who got an artificial heart transplant. Barney Clark, a Seattle dentist struggling with congestive heart failure, couldn’t walk from his bedroom to the bathroom. An artificial heart implant was his only option because doctors determined that he was way too sick for a heart transplant. This artificial heart for human implantation is known as the Jarvik 7, which was named after Dr. Robert Jarvik. He has been building these hearts for a while making artificial hearts as early as his school days. Dr. Jarvik attended the University of Utah and started studying artificial organs in 1971. His mentor was Willem Johan Kolff, The Jarvik 7 was the first artificial heart to be designed and used for permeant use, and it had a heart-shaped pump that they put in the patient.

It’s time to make a complex decision. There is a heart available to transplant from a young woman who has lost her life in a car accident at just 20 years of age. There are three patients awaiting a transplant and they are a match with this newly available heart. Now who would be the best candidate to receive this heart? With further evaluation of the three potential recipients we can clearly distinguish who will be the patient who will be chosen. It is taken into consideration who will benefit most from the heart transplant in the long run. In terms of both life expectancy and quality of life to continue living a life of significance.

The first ever human heart transplant took place just over 48 years ago on 3 December, 1967. Accoording to sahistory.org.za, the historical surgeory was performed inside the CharlesSaint theatre at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape town, South Africa. The surgeory was perfomed by a South African doctor named, Dr. Christiaan Barnard. According to wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Barnard, after matriculation, Barnard went off and studied medicine at the medical school of one of South Africa’s most credible universities, the University of Cape Town. He worked as a general practitioner and received his master’s degree as well as a doctorate in medicine. He also obtained a scholarship from the University of Minnesota, to do training regarding cardiothoracic

It is widely recognised that conducting violent research against moral is a crime, such as the experiments at the Nazi camp. However, it is a controversy on how to treat the results from these unethical researches. In my point of view, the results are separate from the moral obligations to the researcher, although the suffering and rights should be seriously respected. The results from unethical researches should be accessible to the public due to its value and validity, but should also be published and referenced under restrictions.